Books.

The Market Revolution. Howard Bodenhorn, A History of Banking in Antebellum America: Financial Markets and Economic Development in the Era of Nation-Building (2000). W. Elliot Brownlee, Dynamics of Ascent (1974). Stuart Bruchey, The Growth of the Modern American Economy (1975). Christopher Clark, The Roots of Rural Capitalism: Western Massachusetts, 1780--1860 (1990). Thomas C. Cochran, Frontiers of Change: Early Industrialization in America (1981). Daniel Feller, The Jacksonian Promise: America, 1815-1840 (1995). Paul W. Gates, The Farmer's Age (1960). Douglass North, The Economic Growth of the United States, 1790--1860 (1961). Mark A. Noll, ed., God and Mammon: Protestants, Money, and the Market, 1790-1860 (2001). Wayne M. O'Leary, Maine Sea Fisheries: The Rise and Fall of a Native Industry, 1830-1890 (1998). Donald Parkerson, The Agricultural Transition in New York State (1995). Charles G. Sellers, The Market Revolution: Jacksonian America, 1815-1846 (1991). George R. Taylor, The Transportation Revolution (1951). Peter Temin, The Jacksonian Economy (1969).

Immigration. Rowland T. Berthoff, British Immigrants in Industrial America, 1790--1950 (1953). Ray Billington, The Protestant Crusade, 1800--1860 (1938). Theodore C. Blegen, Norwegian Migration to America, 2 vols. (1931--1940). John Bodnar, The Transplanted: A History of Immigrants in America (1985). Kathleen N. Conzen, Immigrant Milwaukee: 1836--1860 (1976). Thomas J. Curran, Xenophobia and Immigration, 1820--1930 (1975). Hasia Diner, Erin's Daughters in America (1983). Jay P. Dolan, The Immigrant Church: New York's Irish and German Catholics (1975). Charlotte Erickson, Invisible Immigrants (1972). Robert Ernst, Immigrant Life in New York City, 1825--1863 (1949). Joseph P. Ferrie, Yankeys Now: Immigrants in the Antebellum United States, 1840-1860 (1999). Oscar Handlin, The Uprooted (1951, rev. 1973); Boston's Immigrants (1941). Marcus L. Hansen, The Immigrant in American History (1940); The Atlantic Migration, 1607--1860 (1940). Noel Ignatiev, How The Irish Became White (1995). Matthew Frye Jacobson, Whiteness of a Different Color: European Immigrants and the Alchemy of Race (1999). Maldwyn A. Jones, American Immigration (1960). I. M. Leonard and R. D. Parmet, American Nativism, 1830--1860 (1971). Stuart C. Miller, The Unwelcome Immigrant (1969). Allan Nevins, The Ordeal of the Union, 2 vols. (1947). Harold Runblom and Hans Norman, From Sweden to America (1976). Philip Taylor, The Distant Magnet: European Emigration to the United States of America (1971). John Kuo Wei Tchen, New York before Chinatown: Orientalism and the Shaping of American Culture 1776-1882 (1999). William E. Van Vugt, Britain to America: Mid-Nineteenth-Century Immigrants to the United States (1999). Carl Wittke, We Who Built America, rev. ed. (1964); Refugees of Revolution: The German Forty-Eighters in America (1952); The Irish in America (1956).

Transportation and Communications. Colleen A. Dunlavy, Politics and Industrialization: Early Railroads in the United States and Prussia (1994). Albert Fishlow, American Railroads and the Transformation of the Ante-Bellum Economy (1965). Robert W. Fogel, Railroads and American Economic Growth (1964). Carter Goodrich, Government Promotion of American Canals and Railroads, 1800--1890 (1960). Eric K. Haites, James Mak, and Gary M. Walton, Western River Transportation: The Era of Early Internal Development, 1800--1860 (1975). Nathan Miller, The Enterprise of a Free People (1962). Frank Luther Mott, American Journalism (1950). Robert J. Parks, Democracy's Railroads: Public Enterprise in Michigan (1972). Harry N. Scheiber, Ohio Canal Era (1969). Ronald E. Shaw, Erie Water West: A History of the Erie Canal (1966). Carol Sheriff, The Artificial River: The Erie Canal and the Paradox of Progress, 1817-1862 (1996). John F. Stover, American Railroads (1961); The Life and Decline of the American Railroad (1970); Iron Road to the West: American Railroads in the 1850s (1978). George R. Taylor, The Transportation Revolution (1951). R. L. Thompson, Writing a Continent (1947).

Business and Technology. Ian R. Bartky, Selling the True Time: Nineteenth-Century Timekeeping in America (2000). Menahem Blondheim, News Over the Wires: The Telegraph and the Flow of Public Information in America, 1844-1897 (1994). Richard D. Brown, Modernization: The Tranformation of American Life, 1600--1865 (1976). Alfred D. Chandler, Jr., The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business (1977). Thomas C. Cochran, Business in American Life (1972). Thomas C. Cochran and William Miller, The Age of Enterprise (1942). E. P. Douglas, The Coming of Age of American Business (1971). Siegfried Giedion, Mechanization Takes Command (1948). H. J. Habbakuk, American and British Technology in the Nineteenth Century (1962). David J. Jeremy, Transatlantic Industrial Revolution: The Diffusion of Textile Technologies Between Britain and America, 1780--1830 (1981). John F. Kasson, Civilizing the Machine: Technology and Republican Values in America, 1776--1900 (1976). Diane Lindstrom, Economic Development in the Philadelphia Region, 1810--1850 (1978). Otto Mayr and Robert C. Post, eds., Yankee Enterprise: The Rise of the American System of Manufactures (1981). Judith A. McGaw, Most Wonderful Machine: Mechanization and Social Change in Berkshire Paper Making, 1815--1885 (1987). James Norris, R. G. Dun & Co., 1841--1900 (1978). Nathan Rosenberg, Technology and American Economic Growth (1972). Merritt Roe Smith, Harpers Ferry Armory and the New Technology (1977). Peter Temin, Iron and Steel in Nineteenth-Century America (1964). Mary N. Woods, From Craft to Profession: The Practice of Architecture in Nineteenth-Century America (1999).

Factories and the Working Class. Mary H. Blewett, Men, Women, and Work (1988); We Will Rise in Our Might: Workingwomen's Voices from Nineteenth-Century New England (1991). Arthur H. Cole, The American Wool Manufacture, 2 vols. (1926). Alan Dawley, Class and Community: The Industrial Revolution in Lynn (1976). Thomas Dublin, Women at Work (1979); Transforming Women's Work: New England Lives in the Industrial Revolution (1994). Susan E. Hirsch, Roots of the American Working Class: The Industrialization of Crafts in Newark, 1800--1860 (1978). David A. Hounshell, From the American System to Mass Production, 1800--1932: The Development of Manufacturing Technology in the United States (1985). Neville Kirk, Labour and Society in Britain and the USA. 2 Vols. (1994). Bruce Laurie, Working People of Philadelphia (1980). Jama Lazerow, Religion and the Working Class in Antebellum America (1995). Bruce Levine, The Spirit of 1848: German Immigrants, Labor Conflict, and the Coming of the Civil War (1992). Walter Licht, Getting Work: Philadelphia, 1840-1950 (1992). David Montgomery, Citizen Worker (1993). Henry Pelling, American Labor (1960). David R. Roediger, The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class (1991). W. J. Rorabaugh, The Craft Apprentice: From Franklin to the Machine Age (1986). Steven J. Ross, Workers on the Edge: Work, Leisure, and Politics in Industrializing Cincinnati, 1788--1890 (1985). Christine Stansell, City of Women: Sex and Class in New York, 1789--1860 (1986). Christopher Tomlins, Law, Labor and Ideology in the Early American Republic (1993). Barbara M. Tucker, Samuel Slater and the Origins of the American Textile Industry, 1790--1860 (1985). Joseph E. Walker, Hopewell: A Social and Economic History of an Ironmaking Community (1966). Caroline Ware, The Early New England Cotton Manufacture (1931). Norman Ware, The Industrial Worker, 1840--1860 (1924). Peter Way, Common Labor: Workers and the Digging of North American Canals, 1780- 1860 (1993). Sean Wilentz, Chants Democratic: New York City and the Rise of the American Working Class, 1788-1850 (1984). David A. Zonderman, Aspirations and Anxieties: New England Workers and the Mechanized Factory System, 1815--1850 (1992).

Society and Culture. Rowland T. Berthoff, An Unsettled People: Social Order and Disorder in American History (1971). Stuart Blumin, The Urban Threshold: Growth and Change in a Nineteenth-Century Community (1976). Daniel Boorstin, The Americans: The National Experience (1965). John L. Brooke, The Heart of the Commonwealth: Society and Political Culture in Worcester County, Massachusetts, 1713--1861 (1989). Colin Campbell, The Romantic Ethic (1987). Leonard P. Curry, The Free Black in Urban America, 1800--1850 (1981). Don Doyle, The Social Order of a Frontier Community: Jacksonville, Illinois, 1825--1870 (1978). Michael Frisch, Town into City: Springfield, Massachusetts, and the Meaning of Community, 1840--1880 (1972). Timothy J. Gilfoyle, City of Eros: New York City, Prostitution and the Commercialization of Sex, 1790-1920 (1992). Paul A. Gilje, The Road to Mobocracy: Popular Disorder in New York City, 1763--1834 (1987). Jonathan A. Glickstein, Concepts of Free Labor in Antebellum America (1991). Clyde Griffen and Sally Griffen, Natives and Newcomers: The Ordering of Opportunity in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Poughkeepsie (1978). Karen Halttunen, Confidence Men And Painted Women: A Study of Middle-Class Culture in America, 1830-1870 (1982). Paul Johnson, A Shopkeeper's Millennium: Society and Revivals in Rochester, New York, 1815--1837 (1978). Hannah Josephson, The Golden Threads (1949). Peter Knights, The Plain People of Boston, 1830--1860 (1971). Raymond A. Mohl, Poverty in New York, 1783--1825 (1971). Scott C. Martin, Killing Time: Leisure and Culture in Southwestern Pennsylvania, 1800-1850 (1995). Teresa Anne Murphy, Ten Hours' Labor: Religion, Reform and Gender in Early New England (1992). Edward Pessen, Riches, Classes, and Power Before the Civil War (1973). David Thelen, Paths of Resistance: Tradition and Dignity in Industrializing Missouri (1986). Stephan Thernstrom, Poverty and Progress (1964). Glyndon Van Deusen, Horace Greeley (1953). Daniel Vickers, Farmers & Fishermen: Two Centuries of Work in Essex County, Massachusetts, 1630-1850 (1994). Richard C. Wade, The Urban Frontier, 1790--1830 (1957). Anthony F. C. Wallace, Rockdale: The Growth of an American Village in the Early Industrial Revolution (1977). Sam Bass Warner, Jr., The Urban Wilderness (1972).

Women and Family. Jeanne Boydston, Home and Work (1990). Nancy F. Cott, The Bonds of Womanhood: "Woman's Sphere" in New England, 1780--1835 (1977). Ruth Schwartz Cowan, More Work for Mother: The Ironies of Household Technology from the Open Hearth to the Microwave (1983). Carl Degler, At Odds: Women and the Family in America from the Revolution to the Present (1980). Dolores Hayden, The Grand Domestic Revolution: A History of Feminist Designs for American Homes, Neighborhoods, and Cities (1981). Marilynn Wood Hill, Their Sisters' Keepers: Prostitution in New York City, 1830-1870 (1993). Alice Kessler-Harris, Out to Work: A History of Wage-Earning Women in the United States (1982). Ellen K. Rothman, Hands and Heart: A History of Courtship in America (1987). Mary Ryan, Cradle of the Middle Class: The Family in Oneida County, New York, 1790-1865 (1981). Kathryn K. Sklar, Catherine Beecher: A Study in American Domesticity (1973). Carroll Smith-Rosenberg, Disorderly Conduct: Visions of Gender in Victorian America (1985). Christine Stansell, City of Women: Sex and Class in New York, 1789--1860 (1986). Susan Strasser, Never Done: A History of American Housework (1983). Gwendolyn Wright, Building the Dream: A Social History of Housing in America (1981).

Films.

California Gold: Stories of Two Women (1985). Her Own Words: Pioneer Women's Diaries (1986). The Industrial Revolution: Beginnings in the United States (1968). In Search of the Oregon Trail (1996). Irish Americans (1993). Samuel Slater & the Industrial Revolution (1981).

Internet Resources.

Five Points Home Page - http://R2.gsa.gov/fivept/fphome.htm
Quilts, Counterpanes, and Throws - http://americanhistory.si.edu/quilts/